Note

This documentation is for the new OMERO 5.1. version. See the latest OMERO 5.0.x version or the previous versions page to find documentation for the OMERO version you are using if you have not upgraded yet.

What’s new for OMERO 5.1

• Version requirements provides extensive details about which operating systems and dependency versions we will be supporting for the life of 5.1 and the likely changes to these for the next major release (currently slated to be 5.2). Most notably for development purposes, we are deprecating support for Java 1.6 and Python 2.6.
• Units introduces the new Units-types which are available for use from all model objects.
• Similarly, Key-value pairs introduces the new concept of a “map” type, which consists of ordered lists of key-value pairs.
• Model graph operations explains how the new graph operations of omero::cmd are implemented.
• Deprecated methods in IContainer and RenderingEngine have been removed, as have the deprecated services IDelete and Gateway.
• Pojos methods have been deprecated and replaced by corresponding units methods.
• OMERO 5.1 requires a Unicode-encoded (UTF8) database.

Breaking changes

OMERO.web

There have been many updates to this client for 5.1. See the OMERO.web section on the What’s new for OMERO 5.1 for sysadmins page for further details.

OMERO.web template and view writers need to use the @render_response() decorator, see render_response for more details.

Graphs

The API’s request operations Chgrp, Chown, Delete, and their superclass GraphModify, are now deprecated. They are replaced by Chgrp2, Chown2, Delete2, and their superclass GraphModify2. To allow each deprecated request to be implemented by its corresponding replacement, a partial API compatibility layer is included in OMERO 5.1 and is activated by default through the new configuration property omero.graphs.wrap. If the new request implementations introduce regressions, setting that property to false will reactivate the implementations from OMERO 5.0. However, the configuration property omero.graphs.wrap will be removed in OMERO 5.2 and Chgrp, Chown, Delete, and GraphModify, will be removed in OMERO 5.3. OMERO 5.1 users should thus be using the new 5.1 graph requests so that problems may be detected and corrected before the deprecated features are removed.

Tables

OMERO.tables attribute names beginning with __ are reserved for internal use, see OMERO.tables.

ImportContainer

Changes to ImportContainer will break any listeners implemented by external developers.